A lot of lion experts that have never seen a lion.
Have you? I'm not an "expert", we just have them on the ranch. I've been closer to cats than many, here. Retreating from a cat is the worst response, triggers the predator in them.
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~